The 15 best Korean dramas on Netflix, from Squid Game to Kingdom and Crash Landing on You

Train to Busan’s Gong Yoo, who has a cameo in Squid Game, stars in the ultimate Korean fantasy romance, Guardian: The Lonely and Great God, aka Goblin

Crash Landing on You took the world by storm in 2020, while the groundbreaking Itaewon Class features future The Marvels star Park Seo-joon as the lead

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Park Seo-joon (left) and Kim Da-mi in a still from Itaewon Class. It is one of many K-dramas that can be found on Netflix.

Published: 5:15am, 14 Oct 2021Updated: 2:20pm, 14 Oct 2021

After stepping into the K-drama game a few years ago, Netflix has grown to become the world’s top purveyor of Korean drama content.

With its mix of original series produced in-house, licensed shows from tvN and JTBC and its library of classic titles, the streaming giant has a dizzying array of options sure to keep any viewer hooked for days on end.

Here is our pick of 15 of the best K-dramas you can stream on Netflix right now.

1. Signal

Signal, one of the original breakout cable dramas, remains among the best shows to ever grace Korean screens.

Loosely based on the American film Frequency, the show follows Park Hae-young (Lee Je-hoon), a young profiler in the present who finds a walkie talkie that allows him to communicate with Lee Jae-han (Cho Jin-woong), a grizzled detective in the 1980s.

He teams up with detective Cha Soo-hyun (Kim Hye-soo) to solve cold cases before they get a chance to happen.

Signal kicked off a new era of sophisticated K-dramas thanks to its gripping and dark storyline.